Our Horses

Brae Park Tom, alias Tom Parker believes himself to be a very important person and is always found where the action is, generally leading the charge if there is one!!

He was born in 2007 and came to us via the good offices of Ron Calder of Kidderminster and is proving to be a very nice member of the team.

He is very sturdy but extremely comfortable to ride.

He is bold and a quick learner who likes to please his rider. As yet he is not a novice ride but is already suitable for our more experienced riders. Tom Parker is the winner of both races at Exeter in 2013 and 2014.

Allan (Big Al) was born in 2007 and is from Northern Ireland, he came to Adventure Clydesdale from Ron Calder of Kidderminster.

He is a bay roan and has a very gentle temperament and loves people.

He is one of the larger horses standing at 17.3hh.

Allan has spent a summer season as one of our princiipal lead horses and has entertained a good number of our more skilful riders.

He is now a really solid member of our team and will delight the confident rider.

Midge is our lively and athletic Little youngster. He is very small for a Clydesdale, standing at about 16.1hh and was born in 2007.

He was bred by Ronnie Black of Collessie Fife, Scotland but came to us via Tommy Macaleese of Aghadowey, Northern Ireland.

Midge has been trained in dressage by Jane Lavington when he was on winter loan with her in 2013/14, he came 7th in the British Dressage Winter Regional Championships musical ride. He is a lovely horse to ride across Dartmoor and is easy going and friendly.

Frankie Doodle, aka, Brimpts Enchanter is our newest recruit to the Adventure Clydesdale team. He is half brother to Midge sharing the same mother, Collessie Enchantress.Foaled in 2010, Frankie came to us from Tommy MacAleese, as did his brother. After a slow start due to a very nasty bout of shipping fever he joined our team properly in Autumn 2014 and has made a very impressive start. He is extremely quick to learn and Tim uses him as a very forward ride leading horse. On winter loan for 2015 he will be back in the team for the coming season and all being well will be showing off at Exeter races in Nov 2015.

Ecco is a Scottish borders lad from Singlie Farm at Ettrick Bridge, Selkirk. He stands at 17hh and was born in 2004.

Ecco started his ridden life at Cumbrian Heavy Horses where we trained him to become a key member of the riding team. He has done seven years of all the regular rides and a large number of the long distance rides and is a very popular horse as he is willing and forward going but easy with it.

He joined us at Adventure Clydesdale in August 2011 and has roamed around Bodmin Moor and Dartmoor for the last three seasons with a great many happy riders, both experienced and novice.

Solo was born in 2007 and joined us from Tom and Margery Tennant of Singlie Farm at Ettrick Bridge, Selkirk.

He is a half brother of Ecco and Siryl who are offspring of the stallion Singlie Storm.

He is a bright bay with an eager manner, he is quite a stocky Clydesdale and is a well established member of the team.

Solo was the best in hand gelding at the Royal Highland Show before he came to Adventure Clydesdale, he is very good looking horse.

Siryl alias Stobilee Sirocco was born in 2006 in the Scottish Borders. He is a full brother to Solo and half brother to Ecco having all been sired by Singlie Storm. Siryl joined us in 2011 and was trained on Bodmin Moor and has been one of our key riding horses ever since.

Siryl is very quiet and easy to handle although he is a horse for the more experienced rider as he has quite a turn of speed.

.Faroe alias Mollinsburn Fairgrieve,is a gentleman amongst gentlemen, a truly exceptional horse with the kind of disposition that everyone would want in their perfect horse. Not surprisingly, he has the mark of the prophet on his neck! He came to Adventure Clydesdale as a 4 yr old in 2011. He quickly learnt the riding ropes and did his first full season of trail riding in 2012. He spent a winter away with Hannah Coote, one of our regular winter loanees and returned to continue his place as a key member of our team, being particularly good for the more novice or nervous rider.

Bobby Dazzler is our latest arrival at Adventure Clydesdale and he came to us as a completely untrained 6 yr old at the end of February 2015. We have had outstanding success with his training and he is now a member of our riding team for experienced riders only until he has a few more miles on the clock. He has an exceptionally gentle nature but is very forward going and eager to please. He has already graduated to doing day rides as he has a good level of fitness.

SALVO is our very new boy on the block. He is just 5 years old and is quite small for a Clydesdale. Salvo is quick and nimble and is proving to be a very nice horse indeed. He is not being ridden by clients yet but will be a fully fledged member of the team by next season and will be available for the more experienced riders.

PHIL was foaled in 2011 and has had a very successful first year in the team, he has taken part in a couple of the holiday rides and is taking to his job really well. He is a very friendly horse and loves lots of attention. A really steady member of the Clydesdale team.

Some of our former team members are listed here

Major is an icon in the world of ridden Clydesdales. He was foaled on the north coast of Scotland in 1998 and joined West Highland Heavy Horses in 2002. He stands at 17.1hh.

He participated in the journey from the Isle of Skye to Cumbria as the main lead horse and was a big player on many of the longer rides at Cumbrian Heavy Horses. He is renowned for his speed and endurance, having been mistakenly given the body of a Clydesdale instead of a thoroughbred!!

He was the winner of the Irvine Carters Society race 2007 a testament to his amazing turn of foot. However, this winning drive does not prevent him from recognising the ability of his rider and toning their ride down accordingly. He is a truly awesome horse to spend time with. Major is now in semi retirement in Cornwall with Laura Cordy where he enjoys a life of luxury fitting for a horse who put everything in to every ride he ever did.

Sadly we had to end Major's life in September 2016 as he was suffering severe arthritis and had also contracted canker. He is missed by all who knew him.

Ha Durran Ben is a hardy Clydesdale from the far north of Scotland, having been bred by the Cormacks of Castletown, Caithness.

He really did not want to leave home as a four year old to come and work for West highland Heavy horses. It took us 3 ½ hours to load him. Anyway, he arrived and very quickly became a useful member of the Skye team.

He participated in the Great Clydesdale migration down to Cumbria and spent four years as part of the Cumbria team before joining Adventure Clydesdale.

He is utterly reliable at his job and has had countless riders of all abilities on his back and showed them the joy of riding a real heavy. Ben is 13 years old, 17.2hh and has a great deal to offer as a riding horse. Ben also participated during May 2011 in a journey of 10 days back up through the West Highland to commemorate a historical pursuit of a horse thief.

Ben has now moved on to new things and has fallen on his feet with Liz Burt who bought him in November 2014 and rides out with him at her home in Crantock, Cornwall.

Tommy Trotter came to Cumbrian Heavy Horses as a halter broken 4year old in 2007.We trained him for riding and he became one of the regular team in Cumbria. He went for winter loan to Freya and Franchesca Hill in Nottingham in 2009 and 2010 but came as part of the Adventure Clydesdale team for the season of 2012. He performed a fantastic job as an utterly reliable all rounder for all levels of ride during the season of 2012 but returned to the Hill girls for his winter holidays. During this time he developed a cancerous growth on his eyelid which was successfully treated.The Hill family, who developed a very strong bond with this beautiful, gentle horse, bought him from us and he now is part of their happy little family in Nottingham